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Bridal Hair help--don't look skillbilly

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Ladies,

I need your best bridal help here.

I am getting married in November and found an amazing vintage dress from 1938 on eBay that I plan on wearing. $160 for this gorgeous crepe-back satin silk dress. I'm having the puffy sleeves altered to be less puffy, but I'd like to do something vintage with my hair.

Kim Long from the WAK shack is going to style it because I adore her fingerwaving skills. But I'm not sure fingerwaving will match this dress. Also I'm kinda afraid fingerwaves will make my head look small (am I crazy? I don't know why...)

My goal is not necessarily vintage to the exact period--I just want to look timeless. And of course beautiful.

And shoo-Skillbilly. You'll see it November 18th.

Oh and forgive the dorky smile. And as you can see--I need hair help indeed!

That is a lovely, elegant dress I would avoid anything too severe or too overdone, in order to avoid competing with or distracting from its wonderfully feminine silhouette (and of course, the beautiful bride herself.)

A vertical finger wave might work as well, if you would like to add a bit of height to your face:

Calla lilies would be a lovely compliment, I think. Have you considered carrying an arm (Bernhardt) bouquet? I have a 1940s Vogue wedding flowers booklet, and there are several examples of this bouquet with calla lilies